What a difference a day makes......

[Kristine]

You all have been so kind in your warm welcomes and now I would like to share
with you what has transpired in the last day and a half.
In my excitement about my newly arriving kittens and the thought of my dream of
breeding Savannahs reaching it's beginning,I was blessed to have Anatole from
Spidersweb Savannahs as one of my kittens owners.
As you are aware from Anatoles own posts here he has been dealing with an
outbreak of T.T.in his cattery,during our many corresponces this was something
he spoke openly about.
Of course it sparked my interest enough to further educate myself,the symptons
seemed remarkably like that of my Abbysinian cat Bob a cat I had spent many
dollars and vet visits on in my pursuit to find out why he had smelly and
ongoing diarreha ,my vet had finally told me that Bob had IBD and when I spoke
with the breeder she said that his father had in fact died from IBD ..tears were
shed and we went onward,my other 2 cats have never developed runny stools BTW .
After my new awareness of T.T. I went to my vet and spoke to her about getting
Bob tested,she had never even heard of T.T.but a local vet training college were
doing some research into it and used Bob in their clinical testing,with both
pouch and the other wet test.
So yesterday my vet called and wanted me to come in and sure enough my cat is
highly infected.
So all my dreams of Savannah cats and babies will have to be put aside for
now...I share this in the hopes that this community will be aware that they
should begin to have all cat's tested for this parasite and to spread awareness
in their vet communities .
I remain a Savannah cat lover and registered breeder so hope to remain a member
of this group and to be a part of the wisdom shared Sue Scalia

Oh that SUCKS. Hopefully you will be able to treat and clear your resident cats quickly. I am sure that Anatole can give you lots of advice.

 

[seacoast]

Thanks for your thoughts and kindness Brigitte ,I am presenting a business plan Thursday and if it happens that i am able to acquire the building etc. that is still a possibility ,but I will not bring a kitten into my home until all are given a clean bill of health .

 

[seacoast]

Yes it sure does suck Kristine but with Anatole's experience and help I will prevail..

 

[Brigitte Cowell]

It's very sad news...but really for your Aby this is great news as this means you have found the reason for his recurrent diarrhea. It's a delay but a good one as you are learning a good lesson about kitty health and the importance of this in a cattery...just before you have one :-(

When your pets are treated and all is stable, the right cats will be there for you to start your new program... in the meantime you can continue to learn about the breed

 

[Brigitte Cowell]

I think it is because it is going to be a lot of work keeping all her current pets separated for treatment and then testing... and I can understand wanting it done and know that they are all clear before embarking on a cattery program. What if the Aby (the original culprit) has a resistant strain or takes multiple courses to finally eradicate it... to be absolutely sure the T.F. is gone you need to test first two weeks after the treatment finishes and then more than once with weeks in between...I think a total of 20 weeks after treatment even.

 

[J.B.]

Oh my goodness. So it's like a time treatment. You just have to give it time to see if it shows up again?

 

[Trish Allearz]

That just royally sucks I was hoping she had the room to totally separate the kitties- some of us have that opportunity and some of us don't. Get well quickly, little Abby!

 

[seacoast]

I will be involved in making sure all my cats are parasite free for a good long while and yes Brigitte it is a blessing in disguise for my Abby , and a true learning experience for me on what it takes to be a dedicated cat breeder and now that I am a member of this and another forum I will learn even more from you kind folks

 

[seacoast]

Thanks Trish it will be quite a shock for my spoiled pets ,who own my home and let me live here...lol

 

[Tab]

Hi. Brand new here but I had to post about this. I too had to give up an F5 male kitten I had gpttem as a playmate for my F3 male (pictured). I have learned to be a quasi-expert on Tri Trich. My boy has it. Yes HAS it. 4 separate rounds of the only know med to kill it and it came back. The med wasn't expensive but there are only a couple of places in the U.S. that compound. The treatment for cats is still an "off label" use. The "sample" was sent to Texas A & M University to make a positive I.D. of the parasite. If there is a good thing about that would be that the parasite doesn't seem to be deadly (I've never heard of that anyway) AND the parasite has about a 2 year life cycle - so it eventually dies and is gone. Some cats are asymptomatic but have it. As for the diarhea - what the articles all seem to say was true - the cat seemed to outgrow it after about 9 months. For me that was 9 months after the last medicine treatment. I ended up following the advice of Judy Gookin DVM and got him on dry food only (not all meat or raw meat or super high protein canned) and it helped.


Not here to start anything and every breeder on here will disagree but: I won't bore with statistics but many more cats likely have it than ever thought. It is easy to misdiagnose and the gold standard of tests is expensive (around $100) and few labs even do it. N.C. State and Texas A & M seem to be leaders. I live within 200 miles of a very well know university for vet med but had to send the sample several hundred miles farther to get the test done.

Good luck.